Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Self publishing my book

I am going to be self-publishing my book and have been looking into the options for that. I am pretty sure I have decided upon which company I will be using, but there are still so many decisions to make.

For example, the company I am looking at has a package I am considering, as it will take a lot of the work out of it for me. The package contains - POD, print on demand, meaning I wont have copies of my book all over my house until they sell, they get printed when bought. - has over 25,000 bookstores than can get my book to, including the US and UK - Will do the cover design etc... for me - Will distribute through Amazon and 1,000 other online stores - ISBN etc... - 2 copies for the national library - Publicity, press release etc... - Google search

It’s about $2,000 and doing this package would mean I would make a very small profit from my book, which is ok, as it is distributed further than I can.

Getting them printed and advertising etc... myself is cheaper, but I can’t do the international market like they can, and it is much easier to let them.

I am still going to get some copies printed and do it myself so I can see what is really working for me.

I still have a way to go on my book and the deadline is getting closer and closer!

As such my list for this week is...1.) I am going to investigate photographers, as I want colour pictures in my book, and this is not something I can do well. 2.) I have about 10 more recipes to “play around” with, so will be doing them this week as well.3.) I will finish typing all my recipes so I can play around with the lay out.